The ICE 3 - Germand HIGH SPEED train 

@Mr. VeryBadCop On my first trip on an ICE3 in Frankfurt I asked the driver if he could make the screen clear but he informed me it was "kaput". Half way thru the journey there was a driver change and the new driver made the screen clear so Kaput was a lie! Anyways I do recall reading that it is entirely up to the driver whether he makes it frosted or clear.

@@xtradel well, I will not blame the driver for seeking some privacy

@@haisheauspforte1632 And neither do I but don't lie and say it doesn't work when it clearly does.

@@xtradel you have a point.

It switches opaque if the emergency brake is engaged. That no passenger might see someone run over.

thanks captain obvious

That's the sound of traction motors- Siemens GTO-VVVF , search it on youtube you'll find plenty! :D

@@shubhampawaskar6443 Its beutiful to listen to. Sadly the ones going trough I think Switzerland and some other country dont have them because they have to use a different generation that doesnt have it anymore lol

@@jasmienkomugi9026 isn't OBB swiss? their Taurus does have it.

@@shubhampawaskar6443 ÖBB or OEBB (if you dont have the Ö) is Austrian (Österreich). Switzerland has as far as I know the SBB. ÖBB=Österreichische Bundes bahenen (Austrian Federel railways) SBB=Schweizerische Bundesbahnen. (Switz federal railway) Weird tho. I know the 3rd generation Taurus (ÖBB 1216) dont have that scale music sound when departing.

​ @Shubham Pawaskar , it's not the traction motors, it's the old power converters with gate turn-off (GTO) thyristors, which are not effectively continuously adjustable like the more modern IGBT converters. Their step-by-step control logic makes it possible to clearly acoustically distinct between the different control frequencies, so that they sound like a scale.

still, the new seats are very uncomfortable. even the Seat change from the original ICE 1 to the ICE 3 seats was a downgrade. I don't understand the plan of DB to make travelling way more uncomfortable. It's not only the seats in the ICE but seating areas in general that get worse and worse

Die Sitze sind wirklich schlecht und noch dazu völlig willkürlich reingestopft. Da starrt man auch mal an eine Wand - bei einem Fensterplatz. Solche gravierenden Mängel müssen doch allerspätestens bei der Abnahme auffallen!?

They unfortunately won't tear down the main hall though. It's a protected monument. They'll only rebuild the station building. How anyone could've decided that such an ugly metal box has to be "protected" is beyond me...

@@leDespicable well post-war Germany really wasn´t drowning in cash so it had to be something cheap and functional. I don´t get why people always hate on 60s and 70s-style buildings

@@rubenvo3627 I'm not saying they should've build a baroque palace, of course they had to build something functional. What I don't get is when people nowadays try to protect this type of architecture. It was never built to last for eternity, those 60's and 70's style buildings were meant to be torn down and replaced by something better when the money was available. Putting something as bland as the main hall of Munich Central on a list of protected buildings is ridiculous when, at the same time, parts of Stuttgart Central - also a protected building - get torn down. Why is it allowed to demolish parts of a protected historical building, but when it comes to the grey box in Munich, those regulations suddenly have to be very strictly enforced...

@@leDespicable Well parts of the Bonatzbau simply had to be sacrificed to realise S21 but most importantly the main building will be refurbished - and I mean it really needed it. And the reason Munich too will be preserved is due to its significance from a engineering stand point. Why would you spend that money on looks when it could be used to improve other rail infastructure?

Thats ÖBB for ya XD

There's two routes for it DB BR406 ICE3M Schnellfahrstrecke Köln-Aachen DB BR403 ICE3

@@EpicThe112 hauptstrecke munchen Augsburg

Yep, the driver can do that. The ICE T (DB Br 411, 415) also has that. But the ICE 3 definitely isn't modeled accurately in TSW 2

The seats only get a bit more padding

I actually don‘t know why everyone is disliking the seats, I sat in the for 5 hours and I had no problem with them.

@@mstrmren how tall are you

@@burgerpommes2001 1,80

@@mstrmren, if you're not long-legged, you shouldn't have a problem with the new seats. Also younger people have less problems than older ones.

They will not replace the bad ones with the new revision. They only started to upgrade the rest of the ICE3 fleet with the new revision.

Your English is just fine wish my German was as good as your English, personally I love the ice trains and when I go on a foreign holiday it’s always to Germany and when booking the holiday I immediately book the weekly ticket for the region I stay in this gives you trams regional trains and certain buses plus the ubahn, great value for the money

@@kobichief As far as I've heard, they're replacing all the bad seats

Sadly all modern trains and refurbishment have hard seats

I rode an ICE 4 last summer in 2nd class and the seats were much better than the one shown in the videos

@@Subgamer-lu4xv i dont know I was only in the ICE 3 Velaro D and in the ICE1

@@lordgermany7068 I think DB trys to match the seats in the whole fleet

@@Subgamer-lu4xv okay i know DB Fernferkehr has is iwn seats in the IC2 that are normal regional train seats, IC1 habe their own seats but there exist many special Waggons with their own seats, ICE 1 Velaro old ICE 3 ICE T have the same seats, ICE 2 habe bis own seats, new ICE 3 and 4 habe their own and Velaro Novo will have i them or i think so and probably the ECx will habe the same

I actually don‘t know why everyone is disliking the seats, I sat in the for 5 hours and I had no problem with them.

He already did that

You mean the ICE 2

@@thepunisher8089 it's actually a ICE 1, I used it almost every 3 weeks until covid

@@europaboi you can‘t connect two ICE 1 trains, you described the ICE 2

@@europaboi bist du aus Deutschland?

@@thepunisher8089 no, just traveled much because of studies

Not yet

Of course ;)

Currently impossible cuz borders are closed due to covid-19

@@janv777 obviously ... but as soon as it is possible and he might make a trip over here

While NS owns a few trainsets to share the costs of the shared service Amsterdam-Frankfurt/Basel, they're all maintained by DB, so it's likely the BR406 / ICE3M will get the new seats as well. (Btw, if you are travelling between the Netherlands and Munich more frequenty, try to catch the once daily Amsterdam-Basel services which offer a connection in Mannheim if you want to spend more time on the ICE3M. If you sit at the front of the train when leaving the Netherlands in the morning, you'll also have almost an entire carriage for yourself.)

@@AlbertPool1995 Thanks a lot for the hint and the details about the Basel-bound connection, I'll try it the next time. Usually I went with a change in Cologne or in Frankfurt. IIRC, that was the Dortmund-bound train that had those new seats. Hope that at least DB will upgrade the Dutch trains after all the trains within Germany. :)

No 😭 In 5 years...

@@TravelALBERT Yes! The high speed route will open. What you mean is the new station!

Really ??

no

@@SimplyRailway No it's not. While they may look similar, there are some great differences. For example, the T series only has 5 or 7 coaches compared to the 8 of the ICE 3 family. It's also considerably slower at 230 km/h max compared to the 3 series 330 km/h. The T series also has a built in tilting system, granted it's no longer in use. Also the infamous Diesel ICE series TD was based on and part of the T series, while it had nothing to do with the 3 family. I get why people mix up the two, they both were built around the same time originally and they look somewhat similar. But that's where the similarities end. The T series was especially built to be used on non modified conventional routes and that's exactly where they keep operating to this day. The 3 family was designed to be the flagship on the new high speed lines and they all share the same basics, 8 coaches (4 of them are propelled) with 5 2nd Class, 2 first class and one Bistro/Restaurant car and speeds up to 330 km/h. BR 403, 406, 407 and the new 408s (the 30 units ordered last summer) are part of it. The T series ( BR 411, 415 and 605 (the Diesel ICE) ) are they own odd little family.

HLB? I think he mostly does long distance so idk why he should do a regional train.. But would be definatly interesting.

if you speak German: I can recommend the channel of “Lucas Michael”, he mainly does trip reports on regional trains within Germany. But only in German (voice over, not subtitles like here). He also did a video of the HLB Flirt (on a different route though): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hixQ1hsgdcM.html

Acela' European counterpart is French, though. It is based from TGV. France have more dedicated high speed lines than Germany.

That's why DB are buildung the Stuttgart-Ulm high speed line, cutting travel times from around 1h down to 30min on that stretch. Also, as Germany is so densely populated with many bis cities not far apart, you don't really need the fastest trains.

@@jonasbaumgart4933 The fastest trains are best for the biggest cities, though.

How is it impressive though?

yeah but then after Stuttgart it goes to 300kph till Frankfurt, the Acela stays slower

I doubt that

@@flopunkt3665 NEWS 15 Jan 2020, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport ministry and Deutsche Bahn ink 86 billion euro investment contract Transport Clean Energy Wire The German rail service Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the country's transport ministry (BMVI) have sealed a contract that will see investments in the state-owned company at a record 86 billion euros by 2030. "The 2020s will be a golden age for Deutsche Bahn," said transport minister Andreas Scheuer, calling the investments "the biggest modernisation programme that ever existed in Germany." The funds will be primarily used for updating grid infrastructure and train stations as well as gearing DB's power supply further towards renewables, the company said. Scheuer said a "strong railway" would lay the groundwork for "active climate protection in the transport sector." The government contributes 62 billion euros to the investment programme and DB another 24 billion, meaning that the company's annual budget available for replacements and maintenance increases by more than 50 percent compared to the last round of financing, said the ministry. DB said it plans to modernise about 2,000 kilometres of tracks every year and 2,000 railway bridges over the next decade. The investments into DB were agreed upon in the framework of Germany's climate package in a bid to improve the country's lacklustre emissions reduction performance in the transport sector, which contrary to other sectors of the economy has not reduced its greenhouse gas output at all since 1990. In order to make train rides more attractive to customers, the government has also reduced taxes on train tickets and announced it would substantially increase funding of public transport services over the next decade. Deutsche Bahn said it would buy hundreds of new trains and also revive mothballed connections in a bid to lure and handle more passengers.

@@flopunkt3665 Why??

@@mstrmren I'm German and I assume you are probably very young or you don't live in Germany. Our politicians have been promising for decades to increase spending on railways and improve the quality of rail services. But in reality things only got worse. I don't believe that the ones who have caused this situation will be the ones to solve that.

@@flopunkt3665 Ok, ok ich bin halt sehr optimistisch aber wenn du meinst...

If you think those seats are bad try the class 800s in britain